Infant Mortality: Lesson Plan

By: Bahja Ali, Muna Muse, Samira Ali & Maryan Aden
What is Infant Mortality?
The death of children under the
age of 1 year. It is measured as
infant mortality rate (IMR), which
is the number of deaths of
children under one year of age
per 1000 live births.

In high school,
throughout Ohio, We
plan to make it an
academic requirement
that high school students
must be taught how to
properly take care of a
child in their health class.

Top causes of Infant

Mortality?
Birth defects
Preterm birth (birth before 37 weeks
gestation) and low birth weight
Maternal complications of
pregnancy
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
(SIDS)
Injuries (e.g., suffocation).
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Length of class

It will be a unit in the health class.

Why teach it at high schools?

We chose it because they are more
closer on having a child and if a teen gets
pregnant, she will have an opportunity to
learn how to take care of a kid.

Lesson that will be covered

(Course Guide/Curriculum)
1. General Health- How you should be living your life
before you and your partner have a kid.
2. Prenatal care and household environment- What a
pregnant mother should be eating and the supplement
she should be taking. The kind of environment the
women and the guy should be providing for their child.
3. Signs of labor
4. Position of holding an infant
5. How to change diaper and properly put a infant to
bed
6. Child Shaking Syndrome and ways to take care of a
infant
7. How to feed a infant and knowing what things to
give and not
8. How to properly bathe infant and knowing how to
dress a infant
9. How to properly take a child on a rode trip and for
how long you should be doing it.
10.How to take care of a child when they are sick